Improved anti-friction roller for shafting



WILLIAM E. WILCOX, oF-PEORIA, AssIGNoR To H'IMSELF AND T.V H. WILLs, 0F BnAnDsroWN, ILLiNoIs.

Letters Patent No. 91,695, dated .Tune 22, 1869.

IMPROVE!) NTI-VFRICTION ROLLER POR SHAFTING.

The Schedule referred to in these I l'e'tters Patent .snd making part of the Same To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WrnLrAM E. Wrncox, of Peoria, Peoria county, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improi'ementsin Anti-Friction Rollers for Boxes of Shafting; and Ido hereby declare the following to be an exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making'a part of this specification, in which-4 o Figure 1 represents a vertical Ysectional front View of the box, with its sectional anti-friction rollers of cylindrical form. l

Figure 2 is a sectional side view of the same.

'Figure 3 represents aperspective view of one of the sections of the anti-friction rollers.

'I he nature of my invention consists inthe construc- 4'tion of ashafting or carriage-axle box, with a divided series of anti-'friction rollers in sections. y.

A is ,the box used in shafting, divided atvthe top, and the topattached byfour screws, B, so as to be rexnoved at any tir'ne when required. It is hollow, to

contain the anti-friction rollers C and .the circular apertures D, for the shafts or journals of shafts to revolve in.

, E are circular plates at the ends of` the rollersin which the journals G of rollers O revolve in' oblong apertures Hin the plates. These circular plates E are divided vintofonr sections, (four'sections, more or IesSJWit-h their respective rollers.

The object of making the plates E, with their rolls` ers C, in section, is for the purpose of inserting the sec- 4tions'into any close box around the shaiting without removing the cranks or wheels of the shafting, which had to be done when the plates were solid, with their series of rollers all connected.

Thcapertures H in the plates E, in which the journals Grof the rollers revolve, are made of an oblong shape, so that the rollers O can play freely, and be no strain on the plates E.

My invention is to use these sectional plates, with their rollers, in shafting or carriage-boxes. v

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letterslatent, is-

The four sectional endless plates E, at each end, with their respective rollers G and journals G operating in the oblong slots` H of each section, when arranged as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

W. E. WILOOX.

Witnesses J. 4I1`RANKL1N REIGART, EDM. F. BROWN. 

